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Subject: Weird Poser 5 issue (with windows being hidden)


danielsangeo ( ) posted Wed, 26 February 2003 at 10:16 PM · edited Mon, 02 December 2024 at 7:13 AM

Hello. I have had a weird issue with Poser 5 in which I'm just about to tear my hair out on, and I can't find information on the Internet. Here's what's happening: I loaded up my figure, gave it some clothing and an environment to live in. That's all fine and good. Then, my next bit requires the figure to walk across the room, so I add a walk path, configure it, then open the Walk Designer dialog. I turn the Blend dials to my requested settings, click Apply, and the WalkApplyDialog opens. I enter my settings and click OK......click OK.... Nothing happens. I click cancel and the animation bar reports the new animation length (150 frames, instead of 30). But, the figure doesn't move across the 150 frames. I try again, but all the menu items are grayed out...including Exit. I CTRL-ALT-DEL out of Poser and, while Poser is closing, suddenly, I see a WalkApplyDialog window appear for a couple seconds before Poser closes out completely. Apparently, a WalkApplyDialog window was hidden behind the Poser window. But, as I tried all my steps again, it happens again (clicking OK in the WalkApplyDialog window and nothing happens). No amount of finagling will bring the hidden WalkApplyDialog (which is what appears to be causing the foul-up). Any way of fixing this? I really want to get my Poser figures to walk again. Thanks.


c1rcle ( ) posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 3:41 AM

SR2.1 was supposed to fix this particular problem, although it could be a conflict with windows itself, which version do you use?


danielsangeo ( ) posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 8:24 AM

I downloaded SR2.1 and it still did not help. Here is my system specs:

OS: Windows XP
Processsor: AMD Duron 800
RAM: 640MB
HD Free: 50GB
Poser Version (According to Help-About): 5.0.2.268
Screen Resolution: 1024x768x32

Thank you.


hogwarden ( ) posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 10:51 AM

If the active window is behind the Poser window, you can't get at it with the mouse, but keyboard actions should get through... If you need to click OK, just hit enter... ... if you need to do more complex stuff in the hidden dialogue... well... um... combinations of tabs and arrow keys will get yuo where you want, but could be difficult if you don't know the layout of the dialogue! Ouch! H:)


hogwarden ( ) posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 10:52 AM

If the active window is behind the Poser window, you can't get at it with the mouse, but keyboard actions should get through... If you need to click OK, just hit enter... ... if you need to do more complex stuff in the hidden dialogue... well... um... combinations of tabs and arrow keys will get yuo where you want, but could be difficult if you don't know the layout of the dialogue! Ouch! H:)


danielsangeo ( ) posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 4:30 PM

Okay, I wasn't clear enough. I apologize. When I click on the OK button in the WalkApplyDialog window, it presses in (graphically) like it should, but when I release the mouse button, it just pops back out (graphically). No number-crunching by Poser, no hourglass/watch cursor. Just clicks in and out. The WalkApplyDialog window does not vanish. It just sits there like I didn't even click anything. It is at this point that all the menus become grayed out and I need to close Poser. Of course, when Poser closes (not correctly, as WindowsXP wants to send an error report to Microsoft), this is when the other WalkApplyDialog window appears (even though it is invisible, even from windowizing the program and resizing it all different ways). Please let me know what is going on and, preferably a fix. Thanks.


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